Legitimizing Phony “Wars” by Philip A. Farruggio

by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad – August 27, 2010 September 3, 2010 So, here we have it. Our cities and towns are facing bankruptcy! State governments cannot help, because they too are in terrible shape, as Uncle Sam stopped Federal Block Grants years ago. These were funds that the Feds send along, gratis [...]

Canada Opens Arctic To NATO, Plans Massive Weapons Buildup by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism Aug. 29, 2010 Sept. 3, 2010 The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently concluded the largest of a series of so-called Canadian sovereignty exercises in the Arctic, Operation Nanook, which ran from August 6-26. Harper, Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay [...]

Pentagon’s New Global Military Partner: Sweden by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism Aug. 25, 2010 Sept. 3, 2010 The longest war in U.S. history and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s first armed conflict outside Europe, as well as its first ground war, is nearing the beginning of its tenth year. Over 120,000 troops are [...]

“Conspiracies R Us” – Wedges Divide the Nation, Unify Factions By Robert S. Becker

by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net September 3, 2010 Before we unprofessional leftists get too high on our horse, blithely scoffing at Beck or Palin’s staged chicanery, let us acknowledge our own home-grown “conspiracy theories.” Agreed, ours are more realistic, indeed evidence-based, but they’re still self-serving, wide-ranging projections, often presuming more than they [...]

Things which don’t go away by William Blum

by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 3 September, 2010 The Anti-Empire Report Things which don’t go away. Things the American government and media don’t let go of. And neither do I. Iraq “They’re leaving as heroes. I want them to walk home with pride in their hearts,” declared Col. John Norris, the head of [...]